Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 07 Sep 2002 09:09:54 -0700 | | From | Andrew Morton <> | | Subject | Re: invalidate_inode_pages in 2.5.32/3 |
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Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > That might work. It's a bit of a hassle that ->releasepage() must > > be nonblocking, but generally it just wants to grab locks, decrement > > refcounts and free things. > > Err. I really really wonder why the vfs is not supposed to know > about these goings on, to the extent of being able to take care of > them itself.
->releasepage() was originally added for ext3, which has additional ordering constraints, and has additional references to the page's blocks.
reiserfs has a releasepage in 2.5. XFS has a ->releasepage. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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